When You Lose the Will to Live

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A story I read in June this year
still plays in my mind. A police officer drove his car into the sea at
Discovery Bay in St. Ann. That he attempted suicide is startling in itself but
not as shocking as what happened next.

Some residents who saw the car being
driven into the sea managed to rescue the man before the car was fully
submerged and called the police department. But before the police arrived on
the scene the man rushed back into the sea and has not been seen or heard from
since.

What touched me about this story was how determined this man was to lose
his life… Since then I’ve heard a lot of dialogue which accuse the man of being
foolish; that he should have found another way out before he thought to take
his life. What a lot of people don’t realize is that suicide is not something
that most people attempt lightly.